Hook and eye



(No Moam M. SHEARER. HOOK AND EYE;

No. 652,783. Patented Jan. '7, 1896.

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MAI'IALA SHEARER, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 552,783, dated January 7, 1896.

Application filed January 9, 1895.

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, MAHALA SHEARER, a

citizenof the United States,residing in the city of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Hook and Eye, of which the follow ing is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hooks and eyes in which ahook having loops or places for being fastened at both ends and a dent in the prong operates in conjunction with a short and well-closed eye to hold the material upon which it is used closely and firmly together. a

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide a hook that may be sewed on so as to hold it firmly in place upon the garment without wearing the threads with which it is fastened; second, to afford a hook easily adjustable, but which will not of its own accord slip from the eye; third, to provide an eye that may be fastened more firmly. and by less sewhooked prevents the garment from gaping; that affords a stay to hold it flat upon the article upon which it is used and in which the loop or thread-eye by which it is sewed upon the material is so constructed, bybeing joined in the center of the eye instead of in each loop, that it will withstand all stress without affecting the hook-eye or causing the eye to pull away from the threads and become loosened and fall off. I attain these objects by Serial N0x 534,312. (No model.)

the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front or top view of the hook. Fig. 2 is a side view or vertical section of the hook, and Fig. 3 is a front or top view of the eye.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throu ghout the several views.

The hook is so constructed as to have similar loops a a and b 19, Figs. 1 and 2, at both ends of the hook. The part c is straight, and a dent is made in the prong of the hook at E. (More plainly shown in Fig. 2.)

The eye, Fig. 3, is constructed longer from L to M than from N to O. The loops 9 g are closed by bringing the wires across and joining in the center of the eye, which also forms the brace or stay h h.

I know that hooks with loops a a have long been in use.

What I claim as my invention is An eye formed of wire having the central loop for the reception of the hook the loops g g for the attaching threads, the ends of the wire forming the eye bent so as to terminate in rear of the central loop, the length of the eye through the thread loops being greater than its breadth.

. MAI-IALA SHEARER.

Witnesses 2 ISAAC W. SHEARER, VAUGHN BLAYNEY. 

